Welcome to the new Ekklesia website

EKKLESIA IS PLEASED to be launching its new website for a new year – our twentieth in operation as a pioneering think-tank (and now change network) on beliefs, ethics and politics. This is the fourth redesign since we appeared on the web in 2002. It also marks a...

UN agrees plan for wealth tax law blueprint

THE UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters has agreed guidance on designing wealth tax laws, opening the door for countries to tax extreme wealth. It is estimated that there is more than twice as much wealth hidden offshore beyond the rule...

Stations of the Cross for Gaza

WE ARE grateful to our friends at Christians for Palestine for producing a moving set of meditations and prayers for Gaza, using the traditional form of the Stations of the Cross, which depict Jesus’s path to crucifixion. In commending these reflections we...

Gaza news updates and truth-sourcing

IT HAS long been said that truth is the first casualty in war. In the age of digital technology, social media, AI and deepfakes, that awful reality has been turbo-charged. The continuing bombardment and assault on Gaza and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are prime...